Re: lxde/openbox temp. deactivate touchpad?
On Sunday 28 February 2016 10:27:34 Charlie Kravetz wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 17:42:11 +0300
>
> Adam Wilson <moxalt@riseup.net> wrote:
> >On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 08:11:12 -0500 Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net>
> >
> >wrote:
> >> On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 03:51:11PM +0300, Adam Wilson wrote:
> >> > On Sun, 28 Feb 2016 07:42:13 -0500 Haines Brown
> >> >
> >> > <haines@histomat.net> wrote:
> >> > > On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 11:56:53AM +0100, BerndSchmittNews
wrote:
> >> > > > Hello,
> >> > > > under debian7 I was using gpoint.... to temporarily
> >> > > > deactivate touchpad. My acer laptop drives me crazy, after a
> >> > > > while the pointer is running wild. I hoped that this would
> >> > > > not happen in debian8, but maybe it is a hardware failure, so
> >> > > > I have to live/deal with it.
> >> > > >
> >> > > > thanks
> >> > > > Bernd
> >> > >
> >> > > My Thinkpad touch pad was also driving me crazy because I
> >> > > couldn't help moving the mouse pointer when typing. I simply
> >> > > removed the synaptic package and have had peace ever since.
> >> >
> >> > Is there not a Fn+Key combination to activate/deactivate the
> >> > touchpad minus the hassle?
> >>
> >> As best as I can make out from the x250 manual, there's no way to
> >> disable the touchpad. I don't know why removing synaptic disabled
> >> the touchpad. But doing so did no harm and I'm not sure why a
> >> package manager is useful.
>
> Removing synaptic touchpad manager does not remove a package manager.
> What used to be called synaptics-touchpad is now called
> xserver-xorg-input-synaptics, which is Synaptics Touchpad driver.
>
> >So you don't use apt then?
Thanks for clarifying that.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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